Fernando Botero Quotes
You paint what you know best; what you went through as a teenager and child. My world is the one I got to know in Medellin; I never paint anything else other than that.
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I hate to say it but I think it has become very obvious that our system for devising trade agreements, so very important to this country's functioning around the world, has not only broken, but it has broken completely.
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In many parts of the world, more people have access to a mobile device than to a toilet or running water.
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I'm not a pretty person. I don't like pretty, so I don't feel badly. Most of the world is not with me, but I don't care.
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This is the conundrum of the present regimes in the Arab world. They still want to control youth; they want to be in control as they did in the 1950s and '60s. But that doesn't work anymore. Now with just a Wi-Fi link, you can understand what's happening in the world.
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Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world.
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In sport, if you want to be the best you have to compete against the best - I would much rather have come tenth and be judged against everyone than come first and be judged against just a few.
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I've been working for many years and I think I've managed to work with some of the best people in the business, which has been rewarding and an apprenticeship.
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Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.
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When I was writing 'The Windup Girl' and 'Ship Breaker,' I was writing those simultaneously, so I was an unpublished writer, not really having that full sense that these books would go out in the world, that they would be successful, that there would be an audience and that there would be fans of those stories.
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My only real advice to Oscar nominees is, 'If you haven't actually seen a competitor's film, don't fib and say you have and blow smoke up their wahooziewhatsits.' Always best to be frank and tell them the truth.
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You gotta be really careful what you bite off. Don't bite off more than you can chew. It's a dangerous world.
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I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it.
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I definitely at times notice a difference in service when I go out. You know, I can walk in to grab a cup of coffee or walk in to have lunch or dinner, and people definitely seem on their best behavior, which is funny, or I start to see people clean up around me, which I always find really, really amusing.
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Many children with cancer in the developing world can be cured. But without appropriate treatment, few survive.
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My OkCupid co-founders are my best friends. We were in each other's weddings.
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The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.
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I think it's foolish to interview someone who's just promoting a movie that they're in and ask if they consider themselves a feminist. That's not about feminism; that's about the journalist wanting to gauge how much this person is aware of the world or is aware of the feminist movement.
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The best time is always yesterday.
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I know what my body can do.
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I feel like I haven't done anything. What have I done? I've just made a few records.
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Lighting practically whenever I can when shooting period really helps with authenticity.
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'Quality' means what will sell and do a customer some good - at least try to.
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I don't know anybody that has a teenage son or daughter who at some point hasn't been like, 'God, I hate them' just under their breath. It's not meant to be literal. It's funny.
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You paint what you know best; what you went through as a teenager and child. My world is the one I got to know in Medellin; I never paint anything else other than that.
